Good evening! This post contains important information about the Rebellion and life in District 13. We're including information on PC and NPC rebellion members, typical daily schedules for recently arrived recruits, some areas of exploration within D13, and a bit of information about what the reeducation process is like out there.

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A few things for the wrap up of Visitor's Day Plot Wrap-Up!

Firstly, (and most importantly,) not all is as it seems with the ashes. Molly Hooper has taken a sample back to District 13 to be examined by the scientists there. Morale is low in relation to the mission, but intel in the form of several hard drives has also been brought back to the District. The offensive and scientific teams are determined to make this mission not have been for nothing.

Secondly, over the next day or so things will become noticeably more tense amongst the natives. Electronics usage will be limited, the New Arrivals will be encouraged not to use their communicators unless it is absolutely necessary. No one is, strictly speaking, informed why, but the rumor among the people who are willing to gossip is that the latest supply run didn't end up getting everything they needed. After the destruction of District 3, tech is getting scarce in Panem, and D13, which mainly scavenges from the outer Districts, is feeling the stretch. Something will need to be done.

Finally, tomorrow afternoon the New Arrivals' communicators will be seized by D13 officials for about half an hour. They will not be requested, they will be taken. When your characters get them back, they will have monitoring software installed so that D13 can track all transmissions. Any resistance will be met with a brusque and proportionate response. They'll get them back very shortly though and nothing will seem to run differently in the slightest. If any of your characters ask where the orders are coming from, they will be told "Jade", and nothing else.

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That's it for the IC-end of things. On the OOC side, more about the D5 resolution and the ashes will be posted later this week (probably on Friday or Saturday). Presently, we're imagining that the need for tech will drive D13 to look for other Districts to uhh… Covertly infiltrate and pirate from. These will need to be smaller-scale missions, with particular ends in mind, but it's a way for your characters to gain the trust of District 13's higher ups. Which brings us to our second point!

Bucky is still the Tribute/New Arrival liaison, but he will be overseen by Jade Nguyen (NPC). She is not nice. Remember Penny? Jade's sort of like the less torture-happy version of her. Your characters are free to notice how everyone seems to talk around her. She's not a comfortable subject.

If you have any questions, ask them on this post! We would like to encourage everyone with characters currently in D13 to collaborate with the mods (specifically Te and Yami) to plan things like missions to other Districts. We're also still very much brainstorming ways for D13 characters to communicate info back to Capitol characters and vice versa. If you have any thoughts on that, feel free to hit us up! Thanks!

So D13 stuff is getting moving behind the scenes.

And we are at the point where we need to gauge who is going and when. Signing up now is not a guarantee or commitment, we are just trying to gauge interest. You can in fact mark your level of interest in moving them.

We have 3 upcoming opportunities to get people in 13, and are hoping to have a solid chunk there pretty rapidly for people to have people to interact with.

Some things to consider while picking characters and deciding:

13 is going to be more strongly character driven for the time being, and less event. If you have not read the books, everyone in 13 has a very strong schedule, and we'll set that up for you guys, but while things are figured out, you're RPing is mainly going to be bouncing off each other in a more confined environment.

You will have little contact with the Capitol. Right now we are looking at an altered version of snail mail.

You WILL have lighter AC for awhile. But I would not choose characters that are easy to loose the voice off, because they will not have as much stimulation dropped in their laps as in the Capitol/Arenas.

OK now I have scared you all away!

There are three threads below:

IF YOU HAVE A TRIBUTE AND/OR CAPITOL CHARACTER YOU WANT TO MOVE GO HERE.

IF YOU WANT TO APP A CHARACTER DIRECTLY TO 13 GO HERE.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, GO HERE.

Give y'all something to do while plurk is down!

This is about plots, generally. How to get involved, and a major shift in the future of the rp (in a good way.)

So the first is fairly simple. If you have an idea to get involved, just bring it to us! We try to be as open as possible, within the confines of a dystopian dictatorship under constant surveillance. Even if you only have bits of an idea, we can work on weaving them in with other plots!

When we make plots, we do try to make as many open hooks for people as possible, like the family visit exposes, but we are generally making plots for the whole game (or at least large majority.) So if you do want personal plot related to the metaplot, it is something you need to bring to us. And please do! Some awesome and surprising things come from player plots. Thought the general course of the game is set, we do have wiggle room for things to move in different ways.

AND SPEAKING OF WHICH!

We would like to introduce District 13 as an area to play.

But it is going to be a bit of a bump for a bit, and we are still working out the ins and outs of how.

But, what is generally the idea right now is that, through some mean or another, Tributes (and possible some panem citizens) will start to be smuggled out to 13.

All those smuggled out will need to have been around at least one arena, and not be openly anti-rebellion/pro-capitol. 13 needs to be sure they won't be bringing over someone who's just gonna blow their whole thing, but they also can't be super choosey, because their windows to smuggle people will be limited. You could app characters with the idea to get them over there asap, but they'd have to be in the Capitol at least for an arena.

It also means canon characters and OC living in 13 will be appable.

However it ALSO means if your character volunteers, they will be, for some (hopefully short) time, in a very limited pool of CR and RP chances for awhile, and might end up being "dormant" for a bit. We are gonna try to move people over pretty fast, but we would not suggest, when it opens up, to volunteer yours super active character you need lots of CR with.

We will also try to get some sort of network/messaging system up but it will have limits (something like snail mail, or something, we're not sure yet.)

This would not be happening for a bit yet (at least till summer, maybe longer) but we are happy to hear feedback with the information here, including if this is a direction you guys are even wanting to start in? It will not end arenas (that will not happen until a point when all out war is going down) but will hopefully open another aspect of the Hunger Games world up for people to explore.

And feel free to ask questions, though right now as this is still VERY in it's beginning stages, those questions might be "IDK."

EDIT: For those canon blind, some basic info about District 13.